Passenger Lists, Immigrant Ships and Genealogy Web Sites: A Selective Bibliography
Passenger Lists
Includes Filby’s Passenger and Immigration Lists Index in addition toindexes to the New York Passenger Lists of vessels arriving in New York from foreign ports from 1851-1891. Subscription fee or access through selected public libraries. Includes links to many additional resources.
Describes how to access several series of customs passenger lists and immigration passenger lists of ships arriving from abroad and arrival records for immigrants through Canada from the 1820s to the 1950s. The National Archives contain naturalization records, passport applications, military service and pension records.
Links to numerous passenger lists, covering early ships, 1600s – 1960s. Also links to additional genealogy sites.
Information on passenger lists from 1892 – 1924, with selected images of original ship manifests and photographs and additional information on immigrant vessels.
The Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild (ISTG) consists of a group of volunteers who are transcribing ship passenger lists and currently have transcribed over 6,500 manifests. Search entire site by name or search specific volumes.
Source for numerous passenger lists. Search by name or view lists by country of arrival. Includes a directory of ships passenger lists on the web.
Contains passenger lists, extensive descriptions of immigrant ships, and links to numerous maritime resources. Maintained by S. Swiggum and M. Kohli.
Immigrant Ships – Information and Images
Palmer List of Merchant Vessels contains detailed information about vessels and images of selected merchant vessels, including immigrant ships. Compiled by Michael P. Palmer
Information about immigrant ships and links to numerous maritime information sites. Compiled by Lou Alfano.
Contains reproductions of old postcards and other ephemera maintained by Pamela Lucas.
Contains selected images from the Museum’s collections, including photographs and paintings under Exhibitions & Collections/Image Collection. The Library also contains over 600,000 photographs and images of immigrant vessels, merchant and naval vessels, small craft, harbors and towns, people and maritime topics. The Steamship Ephemera collection contains over 20,000 items on American and foreign lines, including brochures, sailing schedule cards, menus, cabin and deck plans and over 300 1st and 2nd class passenger lists. The Library’s catalogs provide indexes to thousands of American Line passenger steamships and numerous books on shipping lines, passenger lists and immigration to America.
Contains information on ships related to the Ellis Island microfilm records and ships in the Morton Allan Directory compiled by Stephen P. Morse and Anthony Cimorelli.
Contains Scandinavian Emigrant ship descriptions and voyage narratives (1852-1868).
Genealogy
Devoted to African American genealogy and researching African ancestry. Includes partial transcriptions of inward slave manifests to the Port of New Orleans and many original manuscripts.
This is a categorized & cross-referenced index to genealogical resources on the Internet, including sources for passenger lists.
Contains over 600 million names in the International Genealogical Index (IGI), sponsored by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. Includes military, church and court records on microfilm from around the world.
This resource is produced by ProQuest and is available to public libraries for a subscription fee. Contains U.S. Federal Census Records 1790-1930, full-text newspaper obituaries, Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant applications, Freedman’s Bank Records and access to over 25,000 family and local history books.
Indexes archival genealogical records for Virginia.
A nonprofit site run by volunteers, extensive links to genealogical records in the U.S. including immigration papers, census, military records, photographs, maps.